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My intention was to start this years blogging with a review of 2006… but then this ‘I Tagged You’ thing came along, which also seems like a good start (and I haven’t even started to reflect over 2006, never the less start writing a review post) - so here we go.

The ‘I Tagged You’ thing is basically a blog-chain letter; you write 5 things about yourself and then pass it on to five mates (with blogs), who then do the same. Tom Hostler was the first one to tag me, and then Iain Tait.

1. I have extremely small ears

   Yeah, they are the size of a 3-4 year old. I think it’s a defect caused by the fact that i was born blue; had my umbilical cord around my neck strangling me… that’s probably also why I can’t eat fish and find it hard to spell (good to have something to blame all these things on).

2. I regularly shave my balls

   I am a hairy man - legs, head, beard, ass, arms, thankfully not back!. Like everything you have a lot of - you wished you had less of it.

   I once took this ‘anti-hair’ a bit to far. Being tired of always have to shave my head I once tried to wax the hair of it, thinking; this way I don’t need to do it that often. After 2 hours (and 1/3 of my head) we (myself and my waxing assistants) came to the conclusion that it wasn’t working that well. That the wax just isn’t strong enough to deal with hair on the head. Two hours was enough. The result was that I needed to shave my head with a razor every morning for about 8 month.

   So, if you have any plans on waxing your head - don’t. If you even thought about shaving your balls - please do. It makes you feel special.

3. Just like Adam Duritz, the singer in Counting Crows, I have a Mr Jones

   When I’m on-stage with a guitar resting on my shoulder, I take on a different personality. Some people say I just behave retarded, other say that I’m a Rock God.

4. I have a huge tattoo.

   … or I have two - one large and one huge.

5. Belly Button Fuff

   I seem to be able to extract (or even produce) enormous amounts of belly button fluff.

So, now I will pass it on to:

1. Joakim Jansson, (who just moved from 2006)
2. Willow Tyrer
3. Jonaz Vaneryd
4. Henrik Engdahl and Isak Wikstrom on mananabanana

As I said last week - I been to Skelleftea. Im now sitting in my sofa watching a recording of the Canadian grand prix, waiting for my parents to call from the airport saying; we are here now. Ferrari and Michael Schumacher are currently quickest… but as we all know - he didn’t win this past weekend.

Midsummer was good. It’s just so nice going back and meet all my lovely old friends. They all are truly an amazing bounce of people.

We (Willow, Mr Tall, Henrik and I), rented a car in Stockholm and drove up during Thursday night. I love driving. Especially during the night. And especially Swedish summer nights. It was a pure pleasure.

First thing on Friday morning was a lunch involving fish. I had fish. I just can’t eat it. I did my best. Thanks to the lovely company it went down alright. Then we were of to give my sister a warm hug before finally going to where we the last 4 years have celebrated the midsummer weekend - Olov Nilzens cabin in Boviken. HUGE amount of love and cred to Olov and Carina for putting up with everyone every year.
One of the highlights was definitely when Anders Norberg sang ‘far jag kan inte fÃ¥ upp min kokosnöt’ at the end of a long karaoke session.

On Sunday, we (Willow, Mr Tall, Henrik and I), drove to Burea to play Football Golf with my half brother other brother - Marcus Vaneryd, at Myggvalla (translates to Mosquito Valley).
Football Golf was very very fun. I definitely can suggest that to anyone in any age and any sex.
It is/was a lot more fun then Frisbee Golf, which we played on Monday evening before once again hitting the road to drive down to Stockholm again.

In Stockholm I had a tight schedule. During the day I had plans to visiting Vinh Kha, Simon Kallgard, Isak Wikstrom, Staffan Lamm, Karl Thyselius, Karl Ringman and my brother - Jonaz Vaneryd… turned out to be a bit to tight of a schedule (woke up way to late after the long drive down), so I never manage to get to Karl Thyselius and Karl Ringman =(.

Overall it was a very nice weekend.
And I’m looking forward to next year.

Tomorrow I’m off to my hometown Skelleftea in the north of Sweden to celebrate midsummer. This has kind of grown to be a standing tradition - that I every year go back for this event. Since my parents have moved from Skelleftea and lives in Italy, I don’t go home for christmas. So you could almost say that midsummer is my christmas (Im saying that I’m going home. It’s weird. Since it’s not where my parents live. It’s not where I live. It’s where I was born, raised and grow up… is there a name for that kind of “home”? is it hometown or more like growing-up town?).

Normally it’s loads of fun. Meeting a lot of old friend. My sister (who still lives there). Playing silly games. Having barbecue. Singing songs. Playing volleyball. Drinking beer (Norrlands Guld). I’m really looking forward to it, and a full report on this event will be posted on this blog once I’m back.

This year, two ‘non-northern friends’ are coming with me (and Willow of cause, but it’s not her first time); Henrik Engdahl and Johan Enstrom (a.k.a Mr Tall).
So this year we’re also taking the opportunity to do a little road tip by hiring a car in Stockholm and drive up. I love driving. And since I live in a country where they drive on the left side of the road - driving have come to be something I don’t do very much. - which is kind of sad.

What makes the north of Sweden special during this time of year is the midnight sun. And that, my friends - is amazing! First time I really realised how amazing it is, was the first summer I wasn’t there; my first summer down in Karlskrona (where I went to university at Hyper Island). That year, for some reason, I decided not to go back up north… then I started longing for the midnight sun and jumped on a plane and went back.
When living there, in the north, the midnight sun wasn’t something I regarded as that special. It felt more like my human right after the long and cold winter (yeah, the winters are quite the opposite). But… it is very special and I can suggest the experience to everyone at anytime.

I also have a sad - and happy - announcement to make; My lovely PowerBook, named Alecia (after the artist Pink) and I have separated. After over three wonderful years together, we decided it’s time for her to go in pension. So tomorrow she’s taking a flight over to Stockholm with Mr Tall to go and live her last years with my brother Jonaz.
This means as well that in about 3 weeks I will adopt a new girl. This time around it’s probably gonna be a MacBook Pro.

Here’s some links related to this post:

• skelleftea.se
• Henrik Engdahl
• Willows site
• and Willows blog
• Hyper Island
• The official Pink website
• Apple - MacBook Family

and here are some random links I have found interesting in the last few days:

• listography
  your life in lists create. share. read.
• La Coupe du Monde 2006 de Football en un coup d’oeil
  Every single goal so far in the World Cup. Click on the match score, then click the spinning ball next to the player’s name.
• CSS for Designers
  If you don’t learn, or get more understanding for CSS through this - just give it up.
• Apple - Trailers - Why We Fight - Trailer
  This seem to be a very interesting documentary. Probably a scary one as well.
• Beggr - Scrounging 2.0
  He he, Im afraid he makes a very very good point
• MacNN | 50 Cent turns to Apple for Mac deal
  What caught my attention is the “I never got into it for the music. I got into it for the business.” part. I don’t think Mr 50 is the only one we can blame for all shit music that is floating around - but he sure as hell feeds the beast. After have seen Foo Fighters twice within a week and all… just wished more people did it for the same reason as FF, and with the same respect towards music as an art from. About the Apple deal… if it follows through I will be very disappointed with Apple and Mr Jobs.

Im getting a bit… confused and a bit disappointed at myself. As it turns out most of the posts I do here are just ‘link list’ from my daily catch (of surfing), and posted through my little tool that gets them from del.icio.us. A very easy process. If I didn’t have these tools (del.icio.us and my posting tool), I would most probably not post as many links, and more post would be “non-link-related” (actually not more “normal” post, but less posts will be just link nonsense).

So, should I separate the links from the “main” journal entries? Are the links more interesting then my normal posts? For you? For me? What’s her name?

Sure a “side note” or “link roll” feature would be one solution, but then everything just gets cluttered and distracted, and probably more “issues” would arise from this.

For now I will let it be. But maybe in a near future I will either separate the links from the main content or just stop posting them here (or offer three different views (with links, just links, everything))… damn… start to sound like my brother (sorry bro, had to ;) (but thank god though that I don’t like or want to connect my blog with all my bluetooth devices and simultaneously sync them with all my computers that then trough an online application check every hour if I have coffee in the fridge, and then send a text message to my phone)(sorry again (wow bracket nest( . )( . ))(just had to)

anyway, for those who cares:

• subscribe to my ‘for links’ RSS feed
• filter out my ‘normal post’ for my ‘for links’ only
• del.icio.us